Bring web scale to backend business systems via adapters, replication, sharding, queuing & caching to support a growing mobile workforce. Many of the backend systems running global business over the last several decades have something in common besides not being… Read more

In this third article on building Microsoft MEAP, I’ll show you how to Shard your SQL Server 2012 database using Replication to create a Shared Nothing data architecture to support Internet-scale mobile solutions. In the previous article, I discussed Gartner’s Enterprise… Read more

Here’s to having all your tech dreams come true in 2013! May you seamlessly integrate with backend systems and data sources in a simple and consistent manner. May replication enable your databases to scale horizontally in a shared-nothing fashion to… Read more

Just a few thoughts on concepts needed to give mobile users of your SOA infrastructure the best, fastest User eXperience possible: If you care about speed & scalability, your web service will always check the distributed cache before querying the… Read more

Ever since my last blog post where I demonstrated how to create lightweight WCF REST + JSON services for consumption by Windows Phone 7, I’ve received many requests from folks wanting to know how to do the same thing from… Read more